April 27-May 1

What a beautiful spring week! We have LOVED the sunshine, the early sunrises, and warm days! This was our last week of April and we had lots of Egg-citement in our classroom as there was an arrival of eggs and an incubator that have arrived to be in our classrooms.  

Mrs. Rupert's neighbour lives on a big farm and has graciously shared a bundle of eggs with our classroom so we can observe the hatching process, have our own class pets and learn all about our mystery eggs.  We learned about creatures, birds and animals come from eggs.   We noticed that our eggs were different sizes, shapes and colours.  We made predictions about what could possibly be inside.  We know that waiting for an egg to hatch requires lots and lots of patience!  Hopefully they will hatch soon.  We can't wait to meet them.

This week we learned all about the letter Z.  We created Zebra puppets, practiced making letter Z's and can identify words that begin with the letter Z.  The morning class was able to do the Zipline Challenge on Friday (the PM class will get to do it this week).  They needed to use their scientific creativity to create a "rider" that would travel along a giant Zipline.  It required lots of planning, re-imagining, problem-solving and perseverance.

We continued our science exploration of the 5 Senses this week with a taste test.  We learned about our tongue, taste buds and how they can identify different tastes- like sweet, sour, bitter and salty.  We tried some different foods with strong flavours- like lemon, pretzels, a piece of candy and baking chocolate. We used our vocabulary to describe each food, and recorded whether or not we liked it.  There were lots of candy fans- and less lemon fans!

Our "Friendly Flower Shop" has continued to be very busy- we have added some pretend money now and a place to write cards and letters to go with our flower delivery.  We have also continued to develop our puzzle skills - our puzzle masters are now completing up to 200 piece puzzles throughout the week!  We have been crafting, reading stories, painting, building, playing board games, drawing with sidewalk chalk and running around with our friends at the playground, making up new games and developing our gross motor skills.

I am still looking for a few parent-volunteers for our PM class field trip to the Calgary Farmyard on May 29.  Please let me know if you can join us.

Also- please help your child to return their Library book weekly.  AM class goes to Library on Thursdays and PM class has Library on Tuesdays.  Thank you!

Here are some pictures from our week: